I've quilted the front of the quilt 1/8" from the ditch on all white sections of the quilt. On the quilt top I've used Aurifil #2024 - White and in the bottom bobbin on the quilt back I've used Aurifil #2600 - Dove. For the hand quilted binding I've used a No 8 Silver Grey Perle Cotton.

I'm really thrilled with how the quilt looks finished - and it's a great lap size quilt.

On The Bright Side Quilt

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Normally for hand quilted binding I machine sew the binding to the back of the quilt and then hand sew the binding to the quilt top using a running stitch. I take my stitches through the quilt top and the batting but not through the quilt backing so they're not visible on that side. On this quilt I used the quilt backing to bind the quilt - trim the backing larger than the quilt top and batting on all sides then fold the backing inwards and over the quilt top to create the binding. Hand stitch into place the same way as before - Chris :D

This is beautiful! These fabrics are gorgeous, and I adore the colors. The hand quilted binding is perfect. I've not noticed that on a quilt before and it certainly gives it some wow factor! Well done!

They are 100% quilting cotton Lisa, completely flat. To me they don't look like Burlap, more a tone on tone with a tiny, even and all over speckle effect. Imagine if you took a blue fabric, placed burlap over it and spray painted a darker blue paint through the burlap so you had an impression of the burlap's holes on the original fabric. You can see the effect best in the second photo in the post showing all the fabrics Benartex sent to me.

I would not have thought to use a button on the back as well. Interesting way to hand stitch the binding. I'd love if you'd join my new linky at http://quiltingmod.blogspot.com/2016/02/lessons-learned-linky-2.html.

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